Multiple sources confirmed that the Foxconn plant will produce two variants of Microsoft smartphones for India, a market the Redmond, US-based company has been catering to from factories in China and Vietnam, and Finland.

Roughly 15 months ago, when the Microsoft Board in faraway Redmond announced Satya Nadella as the global IT giant's new chief executive officer, it was a 130-acre campus back home in Hyderabad that broke out into the loudest cheers.

Senior-level Indian engineers and executives are beginning to leave comfortable jobs in Silicon Valley to join startups in India. Shilpa Phadnis and Shalina Pillai find that they are attracted by the innovative ways in which startups are trying to so

Multiple sources confirmed that the Foxconn plant will produce two variants of Microsoft smartphones for India, a market the Redmond, US-based company has been catering to from factories in China and Vietnam, and Finland.

Roughly 15 months ago, when the Microsoft Board in faraway Redmond announced Satya Nadella as the global IT giant's new chief executive officer, it was a 130-acre campus back home in Hyderabad that broke out into the loudest cheers.